Results for "Fergus Ireland"

Fergus Ireland

AuB

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Not Jazz; Valencia; Calvados; Rufio; Ice Man; Dual Reality; Doggerland; Groundhog Tuesday.

AuB: AuB

by Chris May
May 15, 2020

Twin-tenor frontlines are almost as old as jazz itself. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane's meeting on the title track of Rollins' Tenor Madness (Prestige, 1956) may be the starting point for some listeners, but AAJers do not need reminding that the tradition was popular in live performances as far back the 1920s. Later, with the arrival ...

Tenderlonious featuring The 22archestra: The Shakedown

by Chris May
May 2, 2018

In Britain, the incidence of self-taught jazz musicians has declined dramatically over recent decades. Jazz-studies programmes have mushroomed in colleges and more and more young players have been signing up to them. Successful stylists of earlier eras, who may have studied informally with an older musician but who learnt most of their art on the bandstand, ...